How to Conduct a Performance Review Meeting
For most employees, their performance review is the most stressful meeting of the year. For managers, it can be a challenge to deliver a balanced performance review that offers constructive feedback, while still maintaining a positive relationship. With the right approach, however, you can turn the performance review meeting into
Developing a Plan for Your Accounting Career
The road to success is paved with luck, hard work – and planning. Here are some tips for mapping out the shortest distance between you and the accounting career you want for yourself.
Aren’t road trips the best? There’s nothing quite like hitting the open road, with your windows
Bouncing Back After Being Restructured Out of a Job
Restructured out of a job? These five tips can help you bounce back and find your next role in the finance and accounting industry.
How to Impress in a Second Accounting Interview
Congratulations on making it to the next round in a highly competitive job market. It means that your potential employers were pleased with what they saw in your first interview. To continue that positive trend, here are some tips for nailing your second accounting interview.
The Must-Have Qualities of an Effective Finance Leader
There is a saying that people buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. If you want to affect change, it makes sense that people must trust you and the way you see the world. Building this foundation is a critical step in being an effective finance leader.
Resume Gaps: How to Explain a Gap in Your Finance or Accounting Resume
Resume gaps can exist for a variety of reasons – travel, caring for an elderly parent or raising children. Certainly, the economic downturn of 2008-2009 meant that it was not unusual to see employment gaps on a candidate’s resume. But are resume gaps the death knell for a candidate’s
Career Planning for Accountants: The 1, 3, and 5 Year Mark
Where do you want to be in 5 years? Is your current role going to allow you to achieve your objectives? Career planning is essential to getting where you want to be. It’s critical to engage in self–reflection at the 1, 3, and 5 year mark. Here are some tips:
How to Fast Track Your Accounting Career
A new year offers us a chance to set resolutions and follow through. If you want to fast track your accounting career, here are 5 goals to help you reach the next rung on the promotional ladder.
Goals 1: Cultivate a New Skill
Identify any new reporting standards, regulatory measures
The Accounting Interview: Questions That Test Emotional IQ
Questions that measure technical fit often take priority over emotional IQ in an accounting interview, but do they have the self-awareness, empathy and social skills to be a valuable member of your team?
The Best LinkedIn Tips for Active Finance and Accounting Job Seekers
LinkedIn is a powerful tool for connecting active finance and accounting job seekers with prospective employers. Done correctly, your LinkedIn profile can be a powerful calling card. Here are the 5 best LinkedIn tips to help you get noticed by recruiters and internal placement teams.
1. Get Optimized – Keywords and Groups
Find out which words
The 5 Habits of Highly Successful Finance Managers
A study by Dale Carnegie Training revealed something disturbing. Almost 75% of employees are not fully engaged at work. But what differentiated the engaged from the disengaged?
The answer – a positive relationship with their immediate supervisor.
This makes the role of finance manager critical to an organization’s success. Here are
Why CPA’s Make Excellent Entrepreneurs
Could a CPA ever leave the risk adverse world of debits and credits and launch their own business? Unequivocally, the answer is yes. CPAs have specific skills that position them to be great entrepreneurs. To see whether or not the world of entrepreneurship might be a fit for you, read
